Production
Episode: 6
Date: December 23, 1970
Time: 48:18
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: John Robins
Director: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode
- Quickie - Rubber Balloons
- Ballad - Broken-Hearted Lover's Stew (with The Ladybirds)
- Quickies - 7
- Fred Scuttle
- Grand Pappy Blueberry
- Ballad - Rachel (with The Ladybirds)
- Quickie - Bank Robbery
- Bloopers - 8
- Guest - Trisha Noble - Leaving on a Jet Plane
- A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Fire Brigade
- Opportunity's Knocking
- Ballad - Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West
- Tag - Push-Pull-Ring-Pat
Highlights
- A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Fire Brigade
- Opportunity's Knocking
- Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West
Cast
- Benny Hill
- Nicholas Parsons
- The Ladybirds
- Jack Wright
- Tommy Mann
- Sue Bond
- Jan Butlin
- Verne Morgan
- Kay Frazer
- Charmaine Seal
- Liz Fraser
- Connie Georges - Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade member (uncredited)
- Lesley Goldie - Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade member (uncredited)
- Walter Goodman - Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade member (uncredited)
Quotes
- Coming Up
Trivia
- First appearance of Sue Bond.
- Bob Todd doesn't appear in this episode.
- This is the first of three black and white programs that were produced as a result of a wage dispute at Thames TV.
- The "Egyptian Flu" quickie was later repeated with Benny and Jane Leeves on January 5, 1985.
- "A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Fire Brigade' was later remade in A Tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Fire Brigade.
- Benny performs his song, "Ernie, The Fastest Milkman in the West" which includes the lyrics "Ernie was only 68. He didn't want to die." Ironically, Benny passed away at the age of 68.
Sequence
- Last Episode: The Underwater World of Jacques Custard
- Next Episode: Top of the Tops